Pontiac woman Tasered, arrested after asking deputies to shoot her

A 24-year-old Pontiac woman was Tasered after pulling a steak knife and asking law enforcement officers to shoot her.

Deputies from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office were called to the 100 block of Euclid around 10 p.m. Thursday for a fight in progress. The woman, who appeared to be intoxicated, approached them and said she had been punched several times and was having a miscarriage.

A deputy called for medical assistance and asked the woman to wait in his patrol car as he went to investigate the fight. She walked away from the car and went into her basement. The deputy followed, and the woman said she did not want to be arrested.

“Due to the female’s condition, deputies were unable to obtain further information regarding her being assaulted,” a release from the sheriff’s office states.

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The woman’s boyfriend came upstairs and told deputies he had been assaulted by a neighbor, Deputies went next door and found a man who said several people had been drinking at his home. He had words with another man, and a fight broke out, but the woman who initially approached deputies had tried to break it up.

Emergency medical technicians arrived at the scene and took the woman and her boyfriend into an ambulance for medical treatment, but the woman again ran back into her home. She grabbed a steak knife, ran back outside and yelled “Shoot me!” at the deputies, officials said.

She ran inside once more and, this time, exited the back door. Deputies were able to track her to an area between two fences, but when they asked her to drop the knife, she began to cut her wrist.

A deputy Tasered the woman, but afterwards, she was able to get up and run away. Additional deputies there ordered the woman to drop the knife. After taking a few steps, she followed their orders.

Investigators were told that the woman has severe mental health issues, had a miscarriage four months ago and has been saying that she is pregnant again. She was taken to a local hospital for a medical evaluation and a mental health commitment.